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Thirty-seven

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The way of life is to do nothing through acting.
The way of life is to do everything through being.
When a leader knows this,
The land naturally goes straight
And the world's passion to stray from straightness
Is checked at the core
By the simple unnamable vital virtue
Through which people cease from coveting,
And to a land where the people have ceased from coveting
Peace comes of course.



Henry Meyerding 2007-01-27